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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Barracutey Edward C. Wayne WHOS Nazi Drive Cuts Deep Into Greece As Jugoslavias Army Is Smashed; London Blasted With Worst Raids In Reprisal for Attacks on Berlin Up to Specifications Wimpus You sure made a pJ t job of painting this door. Mrs. Wimpus Well, you j! NEWS THIS n (EDITOR'S opinions are expressed In these columns, they ro those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) IReleased by Western Newspaper Unlon.tm in dared this morning that painting badly. WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Associated Newspapers f Nice Attire NOTE-Whe- William Knudsen, Defense Commission chief, who has announced that auto manufacturers will curtail production 20 to speed defense work is shown as he inspected a shipyards at Quincy, Mass. He told workmen that: Time is the thing. it needs; WNU Service.l f J Now, miss, what gear were you in the time of the accident ? ( Oh, I had on a blue woollen sa,J coat, fur cap, gauntlet gloves and shoes. " Good Reason 1 Why is the bell ringing? Because Im pulling the rope"' XTEW YORK. Quintilians line, He abounds in sweet faults, was meant for James F. Dewey. The quite uniformly successful fed- - ' eral labor Share a Failing, conciliator seems to BEHIND TIMES have learned that people are more apt to be brought together fishing time again. And Evelyn Dinsmoor, Long Beach, Califs winner of many fishing contests is shown above proudly displaying her prize winning catch of Barracuda. Deep sea anglers report that early runs of fish are better than they have been for years due to warmer air currents. Its VA f &V- .. V AM Catastrophe Before the Nazis Balkan campaign had been under way two weeks it was apparent that another major catastrophe for Hitlers enemies was in the making, but how extensive or how catastrophic none was prepared to say. After eleven days of fighting, Berlin reported that. Jugoslavias army of some '1,200,000 men had capitulated and laid down their fighting equipment which had proved relatively ineffective against the highly mechanized Nazi legions. London announced bad news too with the report that it had been subjected to the worst air blitz of all time. German sources say this terrific raid came as a reprisal for British raids on cultural and nonmilitary objectives in Berlin. In the very beginning of the n Balkan campaign, the forces took the offensive in Northern Africa, and the two battles proceeded almost in unison, the British being driven practically out of Libya by the time that the British sources were ready to admit that Jugoslavia had been defeated. Reaction of the British people was bitter, not that they were unwilling to receive news of a defeat that had been more or less expected, but because the ministry of information and the intelligence department were accused of having fallen down on the job. This also was the reaction in ' Washington, where it was freely said by those in the military know that the British permitted Roosevelt to promise aid to Jugoslavia and Greece when it should have been known that aid to the former was to be only a gesture, and that the Serbs and Slovenes could not hope to stand up to the attack more than a week or two. Washington sources of high military information frankly said that the British intelligence had fallen down, as it had in the Battle of France, and that the best information in our national capital had been to the effect that the infiltration of Nazi mechanized forces into North Africa had been of the smallest. These sources said they had been told that this shipping of tanks and men to North Africa had had only one purpose that of putting pressure on the French colonies, and forcing them to stand firm with the Vichy government. Whether this was deliberate or an attempt to delude the American and British people was not known, but certainly it was bad information, whether deliberate or - Nazi-Italia- j ; n, not. For in about two weeks the British had lost everything they had gained in Libya, and found themselves seriously on the defensive as far as the vital Mediterranean port of Alexandria and the equally vital Suez canal were concerned. Highlights ... in the news BELFAST: Observers were wondering what stand, if any, Eire would take in the face of the first serious bombing of northern- Ireland. This city and surrounding towns were hard hit by a blitzkrieg from the air and there were many casualties. - The Greek armies, which had checkmated the unaided Italian forces presented against them in the Albanian campaign, found themselves facing a horse of another color when the Nazi hordes moved in from Bulgaria and south from Jugoslavia. Greek , sources in the United States, many, of them intensely patriotic and hoping against hope for a Greek victory, had been saying during the Albanian battle that if the Nazis ever got in, Greece could not hope to hold out a month. How true these predictions were in their essence began to be seen as the Nazi campaign against northern Greece proceeded. Salonika much of the Greek army in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Then the Germans broke through into the Struma river valley, through the Monastir gap and made contact with the Italians in northern Albania. It wgs not long before the plan of h the forces to defend a line running in an inverted from Adriatic to Aegean seas had to be revised, and the whole a hinge of the V, in the Lake sector had to be abandoned, and the armies retreat until the line was more nearly straight. Along this line a frightfully intense battle started, and few were sanguine enough to believe that the line would hold and further retreat and withdrawal not be necessary, particularly as the line, as first drawn, lay over heavy mountain ranges with peaks up to 6,000 feet. And the Nazis had broken through these, and the fighting in its secondary phase was on terrain more to the liking of the mechanized units. , Graeco-Britis- pe Ochrida-Phlorin- LABOR: And Defense The strike situation showed some further amelioration, with the announcement by Bethlehem Steel that about 90,000 of its workers would get a increase in wages. This, for the moment, relieved the public of the anxiety lest a strike hit this holder of more defense contracts than any other one concern in the country, and one of the nations largest builders of merchant ships. The coal strike, however, continued to cause trouble, with four more killed near Harlan, Ky., at a mine which was continuing to operate despite the general shut down. Negotiations for the ending of this strike were in their final phase, with every evidence that the agreement would go through and that soft coal strikes would be over for another two years, if not longer. Those watching the labor situation felt that the agreement would pave the way for better general industrial conditions and that promised strike threats against U. S. Steel and General Motors might not materialize. The settling of the Ford strike was held up as a shining example of handling what looked like a certain impasse. Yet there were still moves afoot in congress which would not exactly outlaw strikes, but which would provide for a cooling off period before the actual calling of a walkout, and also calling for official recognition of the Dykstra-heade- d national mediation board. steel-produce- fellow-feelin- THE GERMAN: Plan GREECE: On Her Heels BALKAN: r, soft-co- 30-d- al Long range views of the eventual German plan in the Balkans as given to the house of commons by Churchill, and as figured out by observers in neutral points like Ankara and Berne centered on one general line, with certain individual ramifications. Once Greece had been defeated, said these sources, and the kingdom subjugated much after the pattern of Norway, France and the Low Countries, then the Nazi forces, flushed with victory, would turn their full attention to the Battle of the Mediterranean. In this observers saw the North African campaign and the Balkan campaign as a huge pincers movement, aimed at the Suez canal and points between. The recent overturn in the government of Iraq, frankly said to have been engineered in Berlin, provided of soil turned back of a back-lo- g Turkey and Syria. The Nazis would then, it was said, turn their attention to Turkey and Syria, aiming at the oil in Iran and s of southIraq, and the ern Russia. These would be mere permitting a fuller supply source for the eventual campaign against Suez. In the meantime it was the plan, these observers said, for the drive against Egypt to continue, and to meet the southwardpushing Nazis at that point. wheat-field- Italo-Germa- by pooling their little redeeming vices than by matching virtues. Share a human weakness with a man and hes apt to begin to feel the stir of That seems to be the idea, although there is no evidence that all this is premeditated on Mr. Deweys part. Heres how he joins em: He doesnt mind his calories, or worry about his waistline. He likes to sleep late. He smokes cigars so strong they make an Erie freight engine smell like an atomizer. n STIMSON: And Knox The growing seriousness of the crisis as far as the United States was concerned brought grave statements in congressional committees from Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Knox. Stimson, warning of the gravity of the situation, told congress that men now in uniform would have to be trained not only for service in the United States, but also in all parts of Central and South America, if need be, and also in other parts of the world. There were many who believed that the secretary was not talking about the Philippines and Greenland, but was pointing to the eventual likelihood of another A. E. F. On the same day Knox, addressing another committee, said that the day was past when we could consider ourselves as unmenaced, and declared that America was being encircled by unfriendly countries. The American people, meanwhile, had to guess at the amount of lease-len- d aid that was actually getting over the ocean. No facts or figures were being given out, and yet on the surface, judging by reports from various ports along the Atlantic seamerchandise board, British-boun-d was showing a tendency to pile up, and the action regarding Danish and other seized vessels was still being talked about in Washington. cook nor nothing. Cant Be 1 Good Shopkeeper (angrily) Whats shoes', away? New Clerk Well, I tried them! on six people and they didnt fill i any of them. He dislikes exercise, yet he is a hoofer who will dance on the slightest provocation until his tongue hangs out. He wears his hair loosely and crams, mi. PHXHCIAN, , casually. All this and more of the same, sets Mr. Dewey sharply apart from the slick and impeccable conformist who is always putting other people in the doghouse and thereby getting nowhere as a conciliator. Sen. James J. (Puddler Jim) Davis set him up as a mediator, in the department of labor, after he had done some strikingly effective conciliating in Pennsylvania. He was a school teacher, auditor for a coal company and a telegraph operator. At the old home place at Chester, Pa., he spends a lot of time patching things up and making them work. Amateur tinkering always denotes the true pragmatist at work. Maybe thats what all this strike trouble needs. PET IRMIHIP 10 BETTER WAV mo A TO UfTWATEe. HE INVENTED THE PUMP ZSO 0.C. AROUND TUB BETTER VAN It) TREAT DUB TO LACK OF PROPER 'BULK" IN THE PIET IS TO CORRECT THE CAU5E OF THE CONSTIPATION WfTH A KElUWd'S TROUBLE CEREAL, DELICIOUS ir EVERy my AMP PRINK PLENTY OP MATFP. A MONG those ready to affirm that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, Leon M. Henderson, director of price stabili- - Unfortunate One There is no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate, for it has never been in his power to try SXS? Given Full Honors fense In His Own Land s the idea of throwing those rough-and-rea- Heres a Prophet com- - himself.-Sene- ca. ed. Once he was a farm boy in Millville, N. J., and his hometown folks have just honored him with a banquet and other proceedings, establishing him as No. 1 Citizen of the village in which he was born 46 years ago. Joined with the citizenry were not a few government officials coming from Washington to approve and acclaim the excellence of Millvilles choice. Here is a village Hamden, innocent of his countrys blood," who didnt stay in a village, one who has been in the thick of things, up to his elbow as some one recently said of him, in all sorts of affairs best known by alphabetical designations, as NRA, WPA, TNEC, SEC, NDAC, etc. One of the strong men in the national defense picture he is the only New Dealer on the defense commission of seven members and its only economist they called him the nations outstanding crystal gazer, when he predicted the business bOom of 1936 and its drop later, in 1937. Ironically smiling, Henderson has subscribed to the appella- Your Stomach Cant Talk when abused! Parties and drinking can up but it complains with late eating set the strongest stomach. Try ADLA acid Tablets for quick relief from ADLA Get stomach and heartburn. Tablets from your druggist Love Apart From Fear No man loves the man whom fears. Aristotle. j Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL tion. The selective service act, popularly known as the draft, may be amended by this congress to include lads of 18, and also lower the top limit from 35 to some lesser age. President Roosevelt told newspa- " His induction into government service came about in rather a curious way. In 1934, as director of the remedial loan division of the Russell Sage foundation, he began sniping at the NRA, and his shots were so accurately aimed as to arouse, not the anger, but the admiration of Gen. Hugh Johnson who grabbed him as consumer advisor. Very soon thereafter he became director of researeh and planning and when a Supreme court broadside sank the NRA he was appointed secretary of the senate committee on manufactures. - i Hotel rEMPLE SQUARE , l - Well I dont feel that Im fitted' t marry a modern woman. I can't He isnt systematic. Taking over as a conciliator, perhaps addressing a big jittery meeting, he excavates various bulging pockets and discovers he has forgotten his credentAls. Then he forgets about all that, opens with a wide nonpartisan smile, delivers his speech and makes them like it. LOWER: Draft Age? per men that changing age limits was under study now in draft circles in congress, and that the matter may be taken up formally early in June. How is it, Tom, you never mar ried? g. Opposite Mormon Temple HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Rates $150 to $3.00 Its a mirk of distinction to stop st this besutiful hostelry ERNEST C. BOSSITEB, M he |
